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Word: imprison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...album, Boy, received much airplay, especially around Boston. Songs like "I will follow" become hits and "Gloria" off the new album is already turning up on the dial. The songs provide a welcome variety among the hits on BCN, but their weaknesses becomes apparent easily. The "formula" threatens to imprison U2 in a musical cul-de-sac. Though the melodies and intros alternate between tracks, the style remains immutable. After a while The Edge seems to repeat the same riffs, and Bono seems to sing nothing but "faaaalling" and "reeejoice...

Author: By Michael Hasselmo, | Title: Autumn Rhythms | 1/5/1982 | See Source »

...truly need a true sex?" His newest discoveries, due out in book form shortly, are a series of 18th century cases in which men asked the Parisian authorities to imprison their wives or children. Says Foucault, with considerable understatement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: France's Philosopher of Power | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...their cause in the headlines and force the government to pull its soldiers out of Ulster. That scheme seems to have little chance of succeeding: When the I.R.A. tried similar tactics in the '70s, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds, police were able to track down and imprison more than 100 activists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Once More, Terror in the Streets | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...himself as "Billy"--Milligan could and often did allude to feelings of his other personalities (to whom he referred as a detached observer); his memory of actions those other "Milligans" took was, however, murky at best. Increasingly, the doctors came to feel it would be grossly unjust to imprison Billy Milligan like a common rapist. Milligan had been unaware of the actions he had committed as madman "Ragen," almost as if he were under the influence of a potent drug...

Author: By Paul A. Englemayer, | Title: Justice's Many Faces | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

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